Example sentences of "or [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 2 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 3 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 4 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 5 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 6 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 7 | The door stayed jammed shut , and he did n't shout back or answer her in any way . |
| 8 | or clips it like that and you ca n't tell |
| 9 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 10 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 12 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 13 | They 're not showing theirs or using it for any other purpose just for the dog 's benefit . |
| 14 | Whether for chamfering , grooving , templating or using it for intricate decorative work , this machine will help you do it cleanly and quickly . |
| 15 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 16 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 17 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 18 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 19 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 20 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 21 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 22 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 23 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 24 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 25 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 26 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 27 | If it is emptying too slowly you can burn some of the holes a bit bigger with a cigarette end or cut them into wider slots with a knife or pair of scissors . |
| 28 | If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness . |
| 29 | Indeed we no longer hang men for anything , or kill them by any other method . |
| 30 | Fitting these chokes with , or replacing them with those that have earths and metal jackets will reduce the voltage reading and any possible ill effects on the fish . |